We would appreciate it if you could inform us of any fellowships / grants opportunities, which you hear about, or that could be of interest to our group. Lastly, when you cross upon useful websites with information on fellowships / grants opportunities, please contact the editor responsible for this section:  William M. Downs.

Omstreden Democratie / Disputed Democracy
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Application deadline:  March 15, 2008
http://www.nwo.nl/subsidiewijzer.nsf/pages/NWOA_6XLBXH_Eng?Opendocument

The research program Disputed Democracy concerns the functioning and vulnerability of democracy. The title of the program Disputed Democracy indicates that democracy is never a specific entity. The program considers democracy as a model and a practice that is continually in a process of redefining, repositioning, reevaluation, relegitimization and adaptation. This clearly distinguishes the program from the previous research into democracy and democratization, in which it was assumed that democracy was a well-defined concept so that answers could then be found to the question: what conditions are needed for democracy to develop and to be viable?  Within the program Disputed Democracy a choice can be made from three types of grant:
- Long-Term Fundamental/Strategic Research
- Short-Term Applied Research
- Exploratory Studies

Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History
Application deadline:  May 15, 2008
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/fraenkelprize.htm

The Fraenkel Prize will be awarded for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history in one of the Wiener Library's fields of interest, i.e. the political history of Central and Eastern Europe; Jewish history; the two world wars; anti-Semitism; and the ideologies and movements of political extremism and totalitarianism.  The work must be written in English, French, or German and be unpublished at the deadline for submissions.

Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Comparative Democratization Organized Section
Application deadline:  March 15, 2008
http://www.ned.org/apsa-cd/Awards.html

The Comparative Democratization Organized Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) invites nominations for the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy. The prize will be given for the best dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy completed and accepted in the past two calendar years prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2005 or 2006 for the 2007 Annual Meeting). The comparative study of democracy includes analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective.

Visiting Fellowship
Australian National University (ANU)
Humanities Research Centre
Application deadline:  January 5, 2008
http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/grants/index.php

The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established by the Australian National University in 1972 to foster innovative research in the humanities and provides funds to support both scholars of demonstrated achievement and promising younger scholars to work in the centre. Applications are particularly welcomed from scholars with interests in one or more of the HRC's research platforms: Biography and Society, Creativity and Human Rights, and Historical Re-enactment and Public Memory. Applications for fellowships to the Freilich Foundation to work in the area of bigotry and tolerance are also welcomed.

Internships
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Application deadline:  March 15, 2008
http://www.now.org/organization/intern.html

With over 500,000 contributing members, the National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest feminist organization in the United States. Since NOW was founded in 1966, the organization has struggled to end the injustice and inequality women face daily. As an intern with the National NOW Action Center, applicants will be on the front lines of the women's rights movement.  An important element of the program is comprehensive leadership training. NOW holds a series of workshops to empower young feminists and give them the tools and knowledge to become leaders on their campuses and in their communities. Becoming a NOW intern is a commitment to apply the skills learned during the internship and to become, or continue to be, an activist leader.

Each semester NOW interns participate in a wide range of activities. These are just a few of the activities provided for interns each semester:
1. First-hand observation of how a sexist, racist, and classist political system impacts women in the United States
2. Frequent opportunities to organize and attend Congressional and U.S. Supreme Court hearings, press conferences, demonstrations, and rallies
3. Intern Lobby Day which includes a "how to lobby" workshop
4. Training in grassroots organizing, including workshops on campus organizing, coalition building, and networking
5. Weekly intern discussion groups and field trips on a wide range of feminist issues which are led by National NOW staff and officers

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Ohio State University
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Application deadline:  February 1, 2008
http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/about/employment.htm#PostDocPG

Ohio State University's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity is a university-wide interdisciplinary research institute. It generates and supports innovative analyses that improve understanding of the dynamics that underlie racial marginality and undermine full and fair democratic practices.  The appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year. The position may be full-time with an annual equivalent salary based on education and experience, plus applicable fringe benefits.  Applicants must have a doctoral degree, solid understanding of and support for the institute's mission, strong research and writing skills, and a record of high-quality performance.

Postdoctoral Fellowship In Democracy and Diversity
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
Application deadline:  March 1, 2008
http://www.queensu.ca/philosophy/index.php?option=content&pcontent=1&task=view&id=25&Itemid=63

A postdoctoral fellowship program in democracy and diversity has been established at Queen's University, funded in part by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). An annual postdoctoral fellowship is available to work under the supervision of Professor Will Kymlicka. The fellowship is part of a larger nexus of activities at Queen's relating to the normative and empirical study of democracy and diversity, including the Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy; the Research Group on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship; the Fulbright Visiting Professorship in Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multicultural Citizenship; the Centre for the Study of Democracy; and the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations - all of which have active programs of workshops, conferences, and visiting scholars and speakers.  
The fellow would be expected to participate in these various activities as appropriate, including presentation of his or her research findings, and to assist Professor Kymlicka in the forum's activities. The fellow would also be expected to do some teaching (two half-courses). While "Democracy and Diversity" is to be understood expansively, and there are no pre-determined limits on the topics it may cover, Queen's has a special expertise in issues of ethnocultural diversity. Recent and ongoing activities have covered such topics as immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism and multicultural education, indigenous rights, affirmative action, historic injustice, nationalism and secession, language rights, and transnational democracy. Applicants who combine normative analysis with empirical case studies are particularly welcome.

Visiting Research Fellowship Program - CEU Fellowships and CEU Visiting Research Fellowships
Central European University
Application deadline:  February 28, 2008
http://www.ceu.hu/echo/fellowships.htm#S&J

The Visiting Research Fellowship Program is designed to increase exchange between scholars of the region and Central European University (CEU), and to promote original research that can be of practical benefit to a particular country or region. The program supports two types of Research Fellows. CEU Visiting Research Fellows hold a full professorship, and are academics of established (preferably national) standing within their discipline. CEU Visiting Research Fellows are academics who have made a contribution to their discipline through publications, conference presentations, or other academic forums.  Whilst at CEU, fellows will present one public lecture to their host department and the broader CEU community.

The CEU may accept applications in the following discipline areas within CEU departments:
- Economics
- Environmental science and policy
- Gender studies
- History (modern and early modern)
- International relations and European studies
- Legal studies (business law, comparative constitutional law and human rights)
- Mathematics and its applications
- Medieval studies
- Nationalism
- Philosophy
- Political science
-Sociology and social anthropology

Identity, Citizenship and Cultural Studies: McMaster University Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies
Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Fulbright Scholar Program
Application deadline:  August 1, 2008
http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2008/award/Ide8545.htm

For over 50 years, the Fulbright Program has offered U.S. faculty, professionals, teachers, and students the opportunity to conduct research, teach, or study abroad and to make a major contribution to global understanding. The program also brings foreign nationals to the United States to study, teach, and pursue research. The Fulbright Scholar Program, the senior scholar component of the Fulbright Program, offers grants for college and university faculty, as well as for professionals and independent scholars. Approximately one-quarter are for research and three-quarters for lecturing, combined lecturing or research, or seminar participation. Multi-country research is offered in some regions.

Award number 8545 is for research. The grantee will conduct research, develop collaborations, and offer occasional guest lectures at the undergraduate or graduate level. Specializations include globalization and cultural studies, with a focus on globalization and the media, the politics of contemporary global culture, and globalization and gender. Themes might include
- globalization and youth (war, militarization);
- immigration;
- neoliberalism and the culture of globalization;
- globalization and the politics of place;
- empire and globalization;
- globalizing cultural resistance;
- narratives of power;
- globalization and the politics of fundamentalism;
- rethinking diaspora studies; and
- globalizing racial justice.

Research Grants

Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression and Dominance
Application deadline:  August 1, 2008
http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm

The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change; the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, drug trafficking and use, and family relationships; as well as the control of aggression and violence. Research with no useful relevance to understanding and attempting to cope with problems of human violence and aggression will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.